EP1732072B1 - OPC-performing method restudying optical source drive characteristics after OPC recording and OPC measurement and optical recording/reproducing apparatus using the same - Google Patents

OPC-performing method restudying optical source drive characteristics after OPC recording and OPC measurement and optical recording/reproducing apparatus using the same Download PDF

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EP1732072B1
EP1732072B1 EP06114549A EP06114549A EP1732072B1 EP 1732072 B1 EP1732072 B1 EP 1732072B1 EP 06114549 A EP06114549 A EP 06114549A EP 06114549 A EP06114549 A EP 06114549A EP 1732072 B1 EP1732072 B1 EP 1732072B1
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  • the present invention relates to optical recording media and an optical recording/reproducing apparatus employing the same, and more particularly to an OPC-performing method restudying optical source drive characteristics after an optimum power control (OPC) recording and OPC measurement, and an optical recording/reproducing apparatus using the same.
  • OPC optimum power control
  • optical disks have been developed and commercialized to record and store image data and sound data with improved performance for a long period of time.
  • Such optical disks can be classified as either compact disks (CDs) or digital versatile disks (DVD) according to data recording capacity.
  • Examples of optical disks that can be recorded, deleted, and reproduced include 650 MB CD-Rs, CD-rewritables (RWs), 4.7 GB DVD+R/RWs, DVD-random access memories (RAMs), and DVD-R/RWs.
  • Examples of optical disks that are dedicated for data reproduction include 650 MB CDs and 4.7 GB DVD-read only memories (ROMs).
  • BDs blue-ray discs
  • HD-DVD high-density optical discs
  • an optimum power control (OPC) procedure is performed to determine an optimum recording power for recording data on an associated optical disc, i.e., the best recording laser power setting for each optical disc and a recording/reproducing apparatus combination.
  • the optical recording/reproducing apparatus performs an OPC procedure over a test recording area of the optical disc.
  • an optimum LD drive level is determined in order for optical beams of an optimum recording power to be emitted from a laser diode (LD).
  • LD laser diode
  • the OPC procedure has a series of steps, including: (1) studying drive characteristics of a laser diode (LD); (2) performing OPC recording as test recording while driving the laser diode (LD) based on the drive characteristics; (3) performing OPC measurement for measurement of an OPC recording state; and (4) performing OPC calculation for determination of an optimum LD drive level based on a result of the OPC measurement and the LD drive characteristics.
  • LD laser diode
  • the OPC recording and the OPC measurement often increase a temperature of the laser diode (LD). If the temperature of the laser diode (LD) rises, the LD drive characteristics also change. Despite the change to the LD drive characteristics as described above, the OPC calculation is performed based on the LD drive characteristics detected before any change of the temperature of the laser diode (LD).
  • the OPC calculation is not performed based on the LD drive characteristics detected after the temperature of the laser diode (LD) rises as described above, the optimum LD drive level is often assessed incorrectly. If the laser diode (LD) is driven according to an inaccurate, or incorrect optimum LD drive level, optical beams of an inaccurate optimum recording power are emitted, which results in a higher error occurrence possibility in recording data on an optical disc
  • US 2004/0179451 discloses a system that requires a predetermined target value for a laser diode drive level.
  • EP-A-0 712 120 describes an OPC method, wherein an automated power control (APC) procedure is used.
  • API automated power control
  • Various aspects and example embodiments of the present invention advantageously provide an OPC-performing method and an optical recording/reproducing apparatus employing the same, which, in order to prevent error occurrence possibility from high density optical discs, perform OPC calculation based on optical source drive characteristics based on an update analysis of drive characteristics of an optical source changed in temperature due to OPC recording and OPC measurement.
  • FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an example optical recording/reproducing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.
  • the flow lines shown in solid lines denote paths of electrical signals such as a drive signal, control signal, information signal, and the like, and the flow lines shown in dotted lines denote paths of optical beams.
  • the optical recording/reproducing apparatus performs the studying of optical source drive characteristics again after completing OPC recording and OPC measurement, and performs OPC calculation based on the optical source drive characteristics updated through the restudying.
  • the studying of the optical source drive characteristics is repeated between the OPC recording/measurement and the OPC calculation so as to obtain optical source drive characteristics changed in temperature due to the OPC recording/measurement and to use the obtained optical source drive characteristics for the OPC calculation.
  • the optical recording/reproducing apparatus comprises an optical disc 100, an optical pickup unit 110, a reproduction-processing unit 120, a record-processing unit 130, and control unit 140.
  • other units such as a servo unit, a motor driver, a key-input unit and a memory may also be arranged but not shown.
  • the optical recording/reproducing apparatus albeit in whole or in part, can also be referred to as a drive system which can be internal (housed within a host) or external (housed in a separate box that connects to a host).
  • the optical disc can be any high-density medium, such as blue-ray disc (BD), high-density DVD (HD DVD) and other advanced optical disc (AOD); however, other optical discs can also be utilized, including DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, DVD-RAM, DVD-ROM, CD, CD-R, CD-RW, and CD-ROM.
  • an optical recording/reproducing apparatus may be a single apparatus, or may be separated into a recording apparatus (i.e., digital video disc recorder "DVDR") and a reading apparatus (i.e., compact disc player "CDP" or digital video disc player "DVDP").
  • the optical pickup unit 110 records target data outputted from the record-processing unit 130 onto a mounted optical disc 100. In addition, the optical pickup unit 110 reads data recorded on the optical disc 100, and outputs an electrical signal corresponding to the read data to the reproduction-processing unit 120.
  • the optical pickup unit 110 includes a monitor photo diode (MPD) 111, a beam splitter 112, a photo diode (PD) 113, a laser diode (LD) 114, a memory, such as a register 115, and an LD driver 116.
  • MPD monitor photo diode
  • PD photo diode
  • LD laser diode
  • the laser diode (LD) 114 is an optical source used for selectively emitting optical recording beams or optical reproduction beams. As described herein, the "recording beams” are optical beams used for recording data onto the mounted optical disc 100, and the “reproduction beams” are optical beams used for reading data recorded on the optical disc 100.
  • the LD driver 116 drives the laser diode (LD) 114 according to a LD drive level set in the register 115. That is, the LD driver 116 generates an LD drive signal based on the LD drive level set in the register 115, and drives the laser diode (LD) 114 to generate an optical beam in accordance with the generated LD drive signal.
  • the beam splitter 112 splits an optical beam emitted from the LD 114 (hereinafter, referred to as "an LD emission beam”) into two optical beams.
  • the beam splitter 120 transmits 70 ⁇ 80% of the LD emission beam to the optical disc 100, and reflects 20 ⁇ 30% of the LD emission beam to the monitor photo diode (MPD) 111.
  • MPD monitor photo diode
  • the LD emission beam transmitted from the beam splitter 112 to the optical disc 100 is referred in short to as “a TD beam” (To Disk Beam)
  • a TM beam To MPD beam
  • the monitor photo diode (MPD) 111 measures an optical power of the TM beam, and transfers a result of the measurement to the control unit 140.
  • the photo diode (PD) 113 converts into an electric signal, the TD beam reflected again from the beam splitter 112 after reflected from the optical disc 100, and applies the electric signal to the reproduction-processing unit 120.
  • the control unit 140 controls overall operations of the present optical recording/reproducing apparatus. Specifically, the control unit 140 controls an optimum power control (OPC) procedure of the optical recording/reproducing apparatus in order to determine an optimum recording power for recording data on an optical disc 100, particularly, after the LD drive characteristics vary according to temperature changes of the laser diode (LD). Parameters used to perform the OPC procedure are typically stored in the memory, such as, the register 115, and can be accessed by the control unit 140 prior to performing the OPC procedure.
  • OPC optimum power control
  • the control unit 140 restudies or re-analyze (iv) the LD drive characteristics, and (v) performs the OPC calculation based on the LD drive characteristics updated. This is why the LD drive characteristics analysis is repeated between (iii) the OPC measurement and (v) the OPC calculation to (iv) obtain LD drive characteristics as updated and changed in temperature due to (ii) the OPC recording and (iii) the OPC measurement and (v) use the LD drive characteristics for the OPC calculation.
  • FIG. 2 is a flow chart for explaining an OPC procedure through the re-analysis of the optical source drive characteristics after completions of the OPC recording and OPC measurement.
  • LD drive level-measurement power correlation is introduced as the LD drive characteristics indicating the optical source drive characteristics, which is correlation between an LD drive level and optical power of TM beams measured at the monitor photo diode (MPD) 111 (hereafter, referred to as "measurement power") when the laser diode (LD) 114 is driven according to the LD drive level.
  • MPD monitor photo diode
  • power analysis studying of the LD drive level-measurement power correlation is referred in brief to as "power analysis.”
  • the control unit 140 controls operations of the optical pickup unit 110, including an optimum power control (OPC) procedure to determine an optimum recording power for recording data on an optical disc 100, even when the LD drive characteristics vary according to temperature changes of the laser diode (LD) 114.
  • OPC optimum power control
  • the control unit 140 upon receipt of an input record command, performs a power analysis, that is, to study the power of an optical source, i.e., drive characteristics of a laser diode (LD) 114 at block S220. Through the power analysis, the control unit 140 obtains a LD drive level-measurement power correlation.
  • the LD drive level-measurement power correlation obtained through block S220 is referred to as a first LD drive level-measurement power correlation.
  • the control unit 140 controls the operations of the pickup unit 110 to perform the OPC recording at block S230.
  • the OPC recording refers to test recording for an OPC, and, in detail, refers to the test recording in a test recording area provided on the optical disc 100, while varying an optical power of the recording beam emitted from the laser diode (LD) 114 (hereafter, referred in brief to as "recording power").
  • the first LD drive level-measurement power correlation is used which is obtained through block S220.
  • the control unit 140 obtains a recording power-measurement power correlation as a correlation between the recording power and the measurement power through the measurement power outputted from the monitor photo diode (MPD) 111.
  • the recording power/measurement power correlation refers to the correlation between the recording power and the measured power outputted from the monitor photo diode (MPD) 111 when the optical beam of the recording power is outputted from the laser diode (LD) 114.
  • control unit 140 performs the OPC measuring by using a reproduction signal applied through the optical pickup unit 110 and the reproduction-processing unit 120 at block S240.
  • the OPC measurement refers to the measurement of an OPC recording state as state of the OPC recording performed at block S230.
  • the control unit 140 obtains the OPC recording state through the OPC measurement at block S240.
  • control unit 140 controls the operations of the optical pickup unit 110 to repeat the power analysis at block S250.
  • the control unit 140 obtains a second LD drive level-measurement power correlation that is different from the first LD drive level-measurement power correlation through the repetition of the power analysis at block S250.
  • the second LD drive level-measurement power correlation obtained through block S250 becomes different from the first LD drive level-measurement power correlation obtained through block S220, since the temperature of the laser diode (LD) 114 has been increased due to the OPC recording at block S230 and the OPC measurement at block S240.
  • the measurement power becomes varied if the temperature of the laser diode (LD) 114 changes, even though the LD drive level remains the same.
  • the control unit 140 performs the OPC calculation at block S260.
  • the OPC calculation refers to determination of an optimum LD drive level based on the recording power/measurement power correlation obtained through block S230, the OPC recording state obtained through block S240, and the second LD drive level-measurement power correlation obtained through block S250.
  • the optimum LD drive level represents an LD drive level for an optical beam of an optimum recording power to be emitted from the laser diode (LD) 114, shown in FIG. 1 .
  • the control unit 140 determines (i) an optimum recording power based on the OPC recording state, calculates (ii) the measurement power outputted from the monitor photo diode (MPD) 111 when the optical beams of the determined optimum recording power are emitted from the laser diode (LD) 114 based on the recording power-measurement power correlation, and determines (iii) a LD drive level corresponding to the calculated measurement power as an optimum LD drive level based on the second LD drive level-measurement power correlation.
  • MPD monitor photo diode
  • LD laser diode
  • FIG. 3A shows an example correlation between different optical source (i.e., laser diode "LD") drive levels and a measurement power obtained when an optical source (i.e., laser diode "LD") is driven according to the optical source drive level.
  • FIG. 3B shows an example correlation between an optimum recording power and a measurement power.
  • FIG. 3A shows the first LD drive level-measurement power correlation 1 and the second LD drive level-measurement power correlation 2
  • FIG. 3B shows the recording power-measurement power correlation.
  • FIGS. 3A-3B if an optimum recording power is determined at "P 0 " and an optical beam at "P 0 " is emitted from the laser diode (LD) 114, the measurement power outputted from the monitor photo diode (MPD) 111 corresponds to a measurement power "M 0 " according to the recording power-measurement power correlation shown in FIG. 3B . Further, it can be seen from FIGS. 3A-3B that the LD drive level at "M 0 " is determined at "L 0 ", according to the second LD drive level-measurement power correlation 2 shown in FIG. 3A .
  • the LD drive level at "M 0 " is determined at "L 1 " rather than at "L 0 ", as shown in FIG. 3A .
  • the laser diode (LD) 114 operates according to the second LD drive level-measurement power correlation 2. Accordingly, if the laser diode (LD) 114 is driven at L 1 ", the recording power becomes "P 1 " rather than the optimum recording power "P 0 ", as shown in FIG. 3B , since the measurement power corresponding to "L 1 " is "M 1 " according to the second LD drive level-measurement power correlation 2 and the recording power corresponding to "M 1 " is "P 1 " according to the recording power-measurement power correlation.
  • control unit 140 sets an optimum LD drive level determined through the OPC calculation into the register 115 at block S270.
  • control unit 140 controls the operations of the optical pickup unit 110 and the record-processing unit 130 to record data on the optical disc 100 at block S280.
  • the data is recorded in optimum conditions since the LD driver 116 drives the laser diode (LD) 114 according to an optimum LD drive level set in the register 115.
  • LD laser diode
  • the present invention is appropriate when the temperature of an optical source is highly increased due to the OPC recording performed with relatively high recording power, as in OPC performance over a blu-ray disk (BD).
  • the present invention is not limited to the above, but can be applicable to all optical discs, including a digital versatile disc (DVD), a compact disc (CD), and high-density DVD (HD-DVD), including any other optical discs.
  • DVD digital versatile disc
  • CD compact disc
  • HD-DVD high-density DVD
  • the present invention can restudy or re-analyze the optical source drive characteristics changed in temperature due to the OPC recording and the OPC measurement, and perform the OPC calculation based on the updated optical source drive characteristics.
  • an optical recording/reproducing apparatus can accurately determine an optimum optical source drive level since the OPC calculation is performed based on the optical source drive characteristics after the temperature of an optical source (i.e., laser diode "LD") has increased.
  • error occurrence possibility in recording data onto an optical disc can be reduced, if not eliminated, thereby enabling an optical source to be driven according to an accurate optimum optical source drive level and optical beams of the accurate optimum recording power to be emitted from the optical source.
  • system controller (140) can be implemented as a chipset having firmware, or alternatively, a general or special purposed computer programmed to implement methods as described with reference to FIG. 2 .

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